Truth THE PEOPLES PAPER. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1927. Looking On At The Game

NZ Truth, Issue 1150, 15 December 1927, Page 6

Truth THE PEOPLES PAPER. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1927. Looking On At The Game

WHAT exactly induces women,

even happily married within the meaning of the Act, to frequent the public environs of the Divorce Court?

A policeman at the portals of the halls of justice once expressed himself upon the subject. "I reckon they come here to get tips on how to keep their husbands in harness."

Said woman, lovely woman: "The Divorce Court attracts me because I forget my own in listening to other peoples' troubles. One day's evidence taught me more about men—and especially about managing a husband—than I learned in ten years of married life." Well, well, well.

Married happiness is one of the few things that, up to the time of going to press, nobody has threatened to teach by post, although the chances are that many sufferers would subscribe if some enterprising salesman were to advertise a course.

Marriage, whether happy, or just so-so, is the sort of habit which grows on one. The wife who puts in her time wallowing in the domestic disasters of others may pick up points in the management of husbands, but she would be well advised to keep mum about it. After all, the average husband is a patient being, all things considered. But even the most docile of males would get a trifle rattled if wifie informed him that she had resolved not to prepare lunch as the result of the careful weighing up of evidence in the case of Mistake v. Mistake and Another. The doctrine that a woman's place is in the home may be a trifle threadbare. But it doesn't necessarily- follow that her advisory board sits in - the Divorce Court. Not a shred of evidence. Case dismissed.